Show FLOUR I hullER SURPLUS IS LION S Though That Is Not Reason Some Dealers Allege for Raising Price S- S BUTTER AND EGGS DOWN Fine Winter Weather Brings Good Supply of Both on onS Local Market MarkeL S Flour prices were raised 20 cents a hundredweight yesterday apparently apparent apparent- ly In response to a a. better tone to the wheat market Dealers in flour explain tile the advance by saying that although there has been no actual advance InS in S wheat prices this week the change in III hour prices ices Is due to the fact that Hour was reduced recently of a S eral opinion that wheat was going low low- er This decline did not materialize anti and the Hour men were obliged to come comeback 4 back to their former prices The Idea that dealers in flour should S think of anticipating a decline li In S wheat ls is scoffed ut at by those who have watched this lie relative positions of the wheat and Hour flour markets in iii recent years The usual Is o hollow advances Immediately or or anticipate v them in seine somo Instances and to follow the declines a few days later laler S A more reasonable cause for the ad- ad vance In Hour given by a local miller Is Ii that when hard times made them them- cUo felt there were several everal Utah mills mill caught with unusually heavy S stocks of wheat and flour on hand This S led to some seine quiet t price cutting a and wholesale and retail flour Dour dealers procured pro pro- cut cured some stock a little below the thu 5 market While this stock lasted hasted a aS S slight reduction In the retail price was wasS S made The overstocked mills have un unloaded un- un loaded and wild a stronger tone to tho thoS S wheat market all mills are arc holding their prices firmly the ftc S 5 Whatever the cause fut for the advance S have been tire the family provider Is Isnow isS S now paying a hundredweight for forthe forthe the best bist patent hour flour This price in inS inthe S the opinion of Is not unreasonable unreasonable unreason unreason- able a when wheat Is belling sell bell ilI ing at SO to 83 cents a bushel It takes lakes pounds of wheat or five bushels to make a barrel of or pounds S of flour The wheat In Salt alt Lake to today today to- to day is selling at S SI I routs a bushel und the live bushels for n a barrel of Hour flour costs the miller not to exceed S llO After being ground Into flour S S with a for the miller another for the Jobber and a third for the rc- rc the tho consumer pays and some one has about pounds of bran branto to sell Drop In lit Ilu cr L Butter and eggs are lower and the prospects are that people of the middle mid die dle class will be lC able to afford these two table luxuries before spring If no outside reason Is fount found for fy strengthening strength strength- cuing ening the market At lh tho best creamery butter is selling fi f- f 2 27 cents a pound as compared with 3 30 cents last week weck Sonic Some grocers are aro 5 still asking 35 si cents a pound at retail retal and others base o dropped to 30 cents Good ranch butter Is tolling soiling as low a aS as S 20 25 cents a pound retail s Tho decline In eggs has lias been caused p by more inure liberal receipts of what are arc known as ranch ranchi eggs This class of lion lam fruit 1 Is selling nt at 9 2 a case less leas than was asked for the few cases that S came on the tho market last Jast week Storage 9 eggs are still a case cam 1155 The Tho closed e caHot for s Is on und arid the tho market let Is bare of striped bass Following are yesterdays yesterday's S QUOS quotations quo QUO- QUOI I S 4 5 I IS S Bakers Bakers' Na 1 owL I lour straight grade per cwt per OWL 70 J cwt Cornmeal 10 pounds so 0 Corn Corti per cwt 5 S S per cwt S Oats no i- i cwt per Alfalfa per ewt 70 und and Honey Honey- Cano Cane sugar suar per por cwt Beet sugar per cwt Maple sugar per pound 25 Honey In comb per pound lOUiia iF Honey strained per pint 25 I i ami Vegetable Almonds per pound 30 Walnuts per pound 23 Pecans per pound 20 20 Limes each 02 Utah cabbage per pound 04 Orange peel pound 25 Filberts per pound 20 20 S Lemons per ier dozen Oranges per dozen S Onions intone pound 05 per S Turnips peck 20 S Bananas dozenS dozen dozen 3 20 per Potatoes per peel peck 20 20 S S Green per bunch 03 Parsley bunch 05 per S Radishes per bunch 05 S Lettuce per head 10 Kraut per ncr quart Dill pickles two for 05 S Sour Soul per quart 15 Crape fruit 10 Hubbard squash 10 20 S Sweet potatoes 7 Ibs for for 1 i 12 FiKs FIgi package per her Cauliflower per pound 15 Cranberries per quart ISA California green Krecu Oc 05 California sprouts 15 S Beets Beet per pound OS S 1 Carrots per peck 1 20 Celery per bunch 9 Oi 10 S nuil Poultry S U US S Steaks l Boiling beet beef 08 S Pot roast Mutton chops 15 1517 Stew mutton o OS Dressed Ic chops 5 5 Dressed veal 1 4 20 Dressed broilers pound 20 Dressed hens 5 20 Tame ducks pound 20 Turkeys pound 25 WIlt Wild ducks teal each 15 Wild ducks mallard Spring lamb iamb chops 20 0 Spring lamb front quarter pound IB 11 lamb hind quarter pound 15 ard pound l jj Smoked ham P. 17 Smoked bacon 20 15 Headcheese 12 haul JIam sausage c 12 Bologna 1 S Liver sausage ago 10 ip Corned beet beer 10 2 S Kl Pili S Kingfish per pcr pound 13 Hock cod per pound frn Crabs each Eastern brook trout each s Perch per ver pound 15 Flounders per iier pound lw 15 I- I Codfish per pound 16 15 Kippered salmon per pound Smelts per pound Cattish per pound 1 1 C Salmon per pound 0 20 Shrimps per quart u Lobsters per pound Q Black bass per pound o Fresh sole sole- in Fresh New York counts quart 75 S selects CO 60 Frosli sli herring pound S Mullet per pound Carp per pound OC Butter creamery per pound Cheese pound 20 S Eggs per dozen 35 S Eggs Ingres storage per dozen 25 5 Xe NeW v York cream cheese pound 0 o Imported Swiss pound CO Roquefort cheese p CO 60 S. S 4 S SUtah Utah potatoes per cwt S Sweet potatoes per par cw cwt tw SOO Carrots per I en-I S S per por crate cl i 5 S S Sr S r i S 1 S Dates pet per vo Figs ci 0 ounce G case Figs 36 ounce 10 cne Bananas 46 07 Lemons I Oranges i ir case I Cocoanuts per dozen Beets per pound Oi oil J Turnips per pound ul oil Cabbage per pound 02 California per doz 00 Celery per dos dor Do Honey strained 1 Honey In lit comb case Cranberries tier per barrel 1000 1100 Savoy cabbage per pound 04 Red lied cabbage tier per 01 Mexican nuts per par pound 20 20 Onions per cwt per pound 12 Creamery butter per ver round pound 27 Cheese per Pound 15 Eastern cheese 16 Ranch eegs cess Storage eggs CCO Dressed springs per hier pound IS 18 Livo hens per pound is Broilers per pound 20 20 Turkeys 22 25 2 Lamb 10 11 Cows per ier pound 7 Thugs Hogs g Steers Pork loins pur pound is IB Veal High patent flour per cwt t c Straight grade per cwt 2 Bakers Bakers' per cwt Cornmeal Cracked wheat per cwt cwt Germade per pei cwt c S 00 Eastern ryo yo Hour Ilour per cwt cwt Utah rye Hour p ler r cwt CWI 2 CO Bran per cwt Wheat per cwt i 40 BroIl Bran and horts per cwt Oats por pr cwt ewt l. l GO Corn whole per cwt Corn cracked per cwt Barley Earle- rolled i per cwt 1 iso CO Timothy bal baled d per ton 1500 1300 Alfalfa baled per to ton 1200 Straw per bale half bait ton lots 30 Strawberries per case |